How to format your references using the Array citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Array. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Tal A. Seeking sustainability: Israel’s evolving water management strategy. Science 2006;313:1081–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Freckleton RP, Sutherland WJ. Hospital waiting-lists. Do power laws imply self-regulation? Nature 2001;413:382.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fearon DT, Manders P, Wagner SD. Arrested differentiation, the self-renewing memory lymphocyte, and vaccination. Science 2001;293:248–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mancera E, Bourgon R, Brozzi A, Huber W, Steinmetz LM. High-resolution mapping of meiotic crossovers and non-crossovers in yeast. Nature 2008;454:479–85.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Positive Displacement Pumps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Jamali N, Scerri P, Sugawara T, editors. Massively Multi-Agent Technology: AAMAS Workshops, MMAS 2006, LSMAS 2006, and CCMMS 2007 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 Selected and Revised Papers. vol. 5043. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Frost WN, Brandon CJ, Bruno AM, Humphries MD, Moore-Kochlacs C, Sejnowski TJ, et al. Monitoring Spiking Activity of Many Individual Neurons in Invertebrate Ganglia. In: Canepari M, Zecevic D, Bernus O, editors. Membrane Potential Imaging in the Nervous System and Heart, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 127–45.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Array.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Doctors Find 150 Worms Living Inside A Woman’s Stomach. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-find-150-worms-living-inside-a-woman-s-stomach/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Activities of the National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Adrian DE. School scheduling models and the achievement of at-risk students: A causal-comparative study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Wagner J. Ties to Miami and to Cuba Run Deep in Marlins Bidder. New York Times 2017:D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Array
ISSN (print)	2590-0056
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